No wonder I can't find any lead. You've got it all!

Ive watched thiss video quite a few times this year and look at my 5 gallon bucket thats 1/4 full and shed tears lol

Grinnin' like a squirrel on a holler log full o' nuts.

This is the video I would say was the basis for helping me get into casting. That volume of lead is still shocking to see!! Glad to see Elvis coming out with new videos and continuing the casting passion. The testing on steel plates Elvis did with 223 was awesome, too...and ballistics gel!!! This video in the youtube suggestions brought me back to the beginning of a great hobby and passion.

WOW!!! I miss those days we used to do that every summer for 15 cents a pound.

I just found your video on processing wheel weighs. It answers my questions. Thanks.

Elvis, you’re the man!!! I’m just now getting into casting my own bullets, and just found a tire shop that’s going to give me my first 5 gallon bucket of lead tire weights!! I’m excited!! Thank you for the tip brother!!

Thank You very much for mentioning that website Elvis. That helps a lot.

Love to have some of them leads for my sinkers. Wow! What a haul!! Great job Mr Ammo!!

I'm envious of your lead haul, you sir are good at what you do.

Hey Elvis, I live in SC too and I can get lead from tire shops as well -- but never more than one or maybe 2 buckets at a time. I think the reason is because you're getting it all! What an awesome haul!

You're welcome. Most definetely gonna check out rotometals. Thanks for the info.

boy your stocking up on lead like its gonna be worth its weight in gold someday lol an it just might. love it

Elvis ammo! I found a few tire places near me that hooked me up with 3 5 gallon buckets of wheel weights. So I started going through the first bucket sorting out the lead. Yesterday I did my first ingot casting in my cast iron dutch oven. It went flawlessly. Just like your videos showed me how to do it. Thanks for all your knowledge and your videos! There great! Take care and happy reloading!

Banning wheel weights, better wood stoves, fun. California sucks living in sometimes.

Great haul Elvis keep up the videos it gives us all incentive to get out there cast those bullets

I've collected lead from tire stores But as you pour I also hear the non lead weight's as they have a higher pitch ting sound .

I am casting some weights to weigh down a storage chest so no one can pick it up without first opening the chest and removing the weights. This video was incredibly helpful and I appreciate you giving out information on how to acquire lead.

you lucky dawg!!! awesome find!!!! one of the best channels on you tube!!!

Great video! I appreciate your time and info!!

Did you just say something about someone hording lead with 3 55 gallon drums in front of you. LOL good job Elvis love your vid's

Dang you Elvis, now I'm going have to get into another hobby. Good video!

Very nicely done Elvis Ammo👍🏽 Those buckets get heavy. Scored 3 from one shop. Felt magical to score about 450lbs of WW

Ive got 5 tire shops that i pick up from, good haul Elvis, greetings from the Heart of Dixie

That is an amazing haul! Good for you!

In my neck of the woods a person would be lucky to find one or two buckets of old wheel weight at $1 a pound.

Best I've seen yet hell of a haul for sure good stuff

2021 here, who’s the dumb one now that nobody can find ammo. This man is a god for being ahead of the curve.

love these videos thanks for the tips. I thought wrecking yard, I never thought of your other ideas.

Dang man! that is a great haul!

Thoes lead might be useful in years to come, Nevah know what kind of apocalypse the future holds. Keep that in mind

Thank you very much! Great information, you sound like a "Real Southern Gentleman", I miss people that had a good raising!

Elvis - This is one of the finest, if not the finest, wheelweight acquisition videos on YT..!! - I used to buy three of those 5 gallon buckets of lead at a time from the metal scrapyard before wheelweights were banned in CA (tire shops used to give me a couple of handfuls or a little bucket, wasn't worth the effort back then - now they have to turn in quotas so they can't give out any). Your lead supply makes my getting 20 pounds of range scrap at a time look like a drop in the bucket...!! Well done. If I lived near you, I'd help you melt that down just for the fun of doing it...!! My casting pot died so I have replacement on order so I can cast up a lot of bullets to do those 3 new Eastwood colors... Have a great day, FC Steve

That's awesome man thanks for the info just getting into the casting seen but that's a huge tip.

Great video,I live in Pennsylvania and I have a bunch of tire shops saving wheel weights for me.Im getting as much as I can.I don't have as much as you but I will get their one of these days!

Fantastic great job

Elvis, one of my sources for lead is old trophies when they were made of lead. I also go large amounts grandfather clock manufacturers.

I subscribed because of this video. Thanks man. You're a gentleman and a scholar. Great video

Each one of those is a hell of a haul Elvis! I like the mentality, I need more! It’s true! Keep on keeping on brother!🤘🏻🙌🏻

Great video, and I love your attitude on top of that! Keep it up brother.

Outstanding!

Holy Lead Man!! Dang! that's Awesome!

Dang Elvis! That's a big ol' pile of lead!

Man, you've got your work cut out for you when it comes time to sort through all of that. Nice haul.

Good haul man! Who would have thought the facemask lol (2021). I keep the soft stamped stickies for round balls and such.

Another source, watch for older house re-roof, I got a good amount of lead from the old lead vent jacks off roofs.

Great video thank you.

Those are the cleanest wheel weights I ever saw !!!

Same in! Where all the lead is.

I know you won’t see this Elvis, since you’ve been MIA on KZfaq go so long (I don’t blame you) But because of your videos, I have collected over 4200lbs of lead since 2019 probably. That is in ingot form ready to go. I even bought the mini loaf tins off Amazon that you use. So I just want to say thank you and I miss your videos man

Hey Elvis wanted to let you know of a new outlet for great clean range scrap lead. I have 2 Indoor ranges with in 60 miles of me. I get it clean no dirt or paper, steel excetra. they charge me 400.00$ a ton. I went to Lowes and bought 40 buckets and 40 lids to put 50 lbs into each and keep dry and out of the weather. They generate a ton each month Im building a 300 pound melting pot to make ingots. Chat soon I've learned a lot from watching you and Fortunecookie45lc Thacks

Hey Elvis, man thats awesome. Wish we could get the same here in taxachusetts. Ive been to every tire shop with in a 20 mile range and no luck. I guess its illegal for them to get rid of it unless its recycled properly at a recylcling center. Ive been forced to get it off of ebay...anyhow its still cheaper than buying bullets. thanks for the videos man...keep em coming. Shoot safe.

fellow South Carolinian here, and I can't find any tire shops willing to give up wheel weights cause they already have deals with other people that want them (haha, and now I know who!). but I'm lucking to work at a TA Truck Shop where I get first dibs on any weights that come off the tires, and some of these truck tires take up to a full pound to balance them and times that by 10 tires on the tractor and 8 on the trailer. I think the most I've ever pulled off was 5 pounds of lead weights after swapping out all 8 drive tires. only down side is they are around 80% stick on weights. if I ever get desperate enough I might try cracking open one of the massive 60lb batteries those trucks take. we always have around 30 of them on a pallet we sell for scrap.

Отличный результат, тоже запасы свинца сделал,думал что мне достаточно, но, посмотрев ваше видео понял-нужно еще,на много больше. Удачных выстрелов.

I live in South Carolina to, now I know who all the tire shops are giving their lead to. LOL Thanks for the videos Elvis keep it up.

I have a great guy that is a mobile tire fitter for truck's. I give him a case of beer for buckets of lead every month. His brother swapped me 85kg of printing lead letter for 250 bird shot 12g shells, I know I got the good end of that deal. Love your channel Elvis.

Great video bud.

I'm paying .30 cents a pound for mixed lead wheel weights at the local scrapyard here. I bet I see 70% - 80% usable lead out of that. When you find stick on pure lead wheel weights in there it kinda makes up for all the bum ones. I save those separate for another batch of just those. It takes awhile to come up with any amount of them before it is worthwhile melting them down. I have a 20 quart, 7 quart and 2 quart Dutch ovens. It depends on what I am doing for which one I use at that given time. If at all possible I try to use the 20 quart the first time. It keeps everything more uniform and all in the same alloy weighing the same that way. I have multiple size ingot molds I store and use my lead in. The big boy is a 11 1/2 pound ingot. I use that one to process, hoard and store large quantities of lead. I have 5 and some change pound molds I use when I want to store/use them. Also have Lyman 1 pound ingot molds for topping off the pot while I am casting. Also have some trapezoid ones I made myself out of angle iron and welded them up with sides and handles. I don't use those very often but every once in awhile I do.

Chain tire shops don't give them up but they do drop them and I scrounge them around the shop when closed. Shops at truck stops may give up the trash weights if ask.

Your videos are awesome and your opening is extremely funny keep it up!!!!

wow amazing

Man that's a lot of work. My back hurts watching you work. Last video you had your Dog helping you . Your brother from jersey buys his bullets made already. Never got into casting . We do have a good bullet caster in toms river called C and J casting . He does a good job ,and I won't blow my back out . Keep up the hard work.

Hi Elvis, I’ve been collecting range scrap, but since there’s only one range close to me, I’ve gotten about all I can until it builds back up. I’ve been thinking about wheel weights, but have heard that now they are using a lot of zinc and that’s not supposed to be good. I know you made a video on using zinc, but for now I want to stay with lead. How do you know the difference between the two and what happens if a small amount of zinc gets mixed in by mistake? Thanks

A lot of weight on the suspension of the truck a good way to bust a spring and brake a axle. Make small trips. Good job on your lead making. I've found a same what lead but it's very hard

Great haul. Looks like you need to start making ingots.

me too on the 80 percent sc rules

This is quality content

good job Elvis

Lead weights are banned in Maine. I suppose I'd have to keep my eye out for old abandoned cars and the occasional out of state car that needs a new tire.

I spent about a hour digging through the 3 55g barrels at one of the local tire shops yesterday and got about 35-40lbs of lead. I’m kind of torn between time and value. It was free.. but I charge $80/h for my plumbing rate. Seems to be getting to where it’s worth more to work and buy the less than scrap it. But.. on slow days I’ll go dig through the barrels

I’m new to the lead casting world. I just got done doing my first batch of ingots. They came out “OK”. Just wondering if when after fluxing and stirring prior to pouring, if you take “all” the skim off the top? or is some of that stuff on top supposed to stay with the lead that you pour for the ingots? Any and all help would be appreciated! Thanks in advance.

That's some fine lead ingots

Great score Elves I remember herring Obama closed all lead mines in the US and that There will be no more leaded gasoline available anywhere I don’t know how this relates to let bullets but I thought I would throw it out there

Looks like I need to get busy!

Hey Elvis, you should make a video using some of your new lead hall 🔫😃

I like this guy 👍🏾

Good info, you have a lifetime of lead there LOL

good looking out

Man i wish it was this simple, i work as a mechanic so getting weights is no problem. The issue is that in Europe lead weights have been banned since around 2005 or something, theyre all zinc now.

Great vid

Gaggum! The back of the truck lifted noticeably.

you Elvis are a hard worker. I just asked my mechanic for some wheel wiehhts but in winter to.e about 6 months here in Toronto eh

It's hoarders like you that make it super hard for anyone else to score a bucket full. Ease up Elvis! Leave some for the rest of us😢

I see your point but in what part of earth would you make that many bullets from that much lead?

Sharing this to your health insurance carrier…😅

I cast a lot of bullets and also sinkers, but I find that slot of my sinkers get turned into bullets lol. Wish I had some of that.

Hi Elvis, up here I;ve nearly only the access to range scrap. And these are mainly .22 LR . Is that enough hardness to cast .38 specials with ? Thanks and keep up the good work !

Do you add anything to the wheel weight lead before casting or do you just smelt clean and cast bulelts

mmmmmmmm all that nice lead, i wish it was mine ^^

Hey I just went shopping at roto last night and bought 75lbs of pure lead for my bullet swaging (new hobby 😀) what part of SC? I am in the upstate of SC near Spartanburg.

Thanks man

how much did it cost you to fill the last barrel (last haul)

I dug my lead out of the berm at the range. I melted it down into ingots. Still have about 250 pounds of ingots since my last mining effort.

i did a deal a couple of years back for 3 5gal buckets(total weight was 432lbs) after i sorted and separated everything i wound up with 264lbs in useable clip on weights and 38lbs of stick on weights.

I'm watching this 5 years later and I got a snicker out of the mask

I want to start casting my own bullets but here in California it's getting hard to find lead wheel weights

Lucky sob! Lol I've called every scrap yard around and not one has lead or wheel weights anymore

Hey Elvis! Would you be able to do a video on how you process your wheel weights into ingots? I just got my first 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights and need some direction on sorting. Any advise helps! A video would help even more! -Mark-

Elvis, I have never seen that many wheel weights in one place ! I'm green with envy. I have not checked my tire places in quite awhile, but will try one more time. I buy roofing lead at $1.00 a lb. from a recycling place not to far from my house and feel lucky to be able to do that. I also live near a harbor and will check out some boat places to see what I can find. To get a big chunk of lead would be great. Don't know how I will get it home, but that would be a great problem to have. Any suggestions on how to cut it up ?

I haven't had any luck with tire shops in TX.